RAPP Campaign
Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
By: Tim Murphy, NY Nonprofit Media: Jose Hamza Saldana, director of Release Aging People in Prison, in a conversation with New York Nonprofit Media, discusses how to effect change in the face of an Albany scared of seeming soft on crime.
By: Staff Report, FingerLakes1 - A legislative push to reform New York’s parole system has gained momentum, with the Assembly Correction Committee advancing a bill Wednesday that could grant parole eligibility to prison inmates aged 55 and older, provided they have served at least 15 years of their sentence....
By: Lisa Kate, Spectrum News 1 - Lawmakers in the Assembly Correction Committee advanced legislation Wednesday to mandate any person in New York prison aged 55 and older to be eligible for a parole hearing after they've served at least 15 years of their sentence. It would include people serving life sentences..
By: Nick Reisman, Spectrum News 1 - Changes to New York's victims' compensation law as well as a proposed overhaul of parole are being backed by a founder of the MeToo movement, advocates announced this week....
By: Chris Gelardi and Sam Mellins, New York Focus: This time last year, Hochul promised to fully staff the parole board. But vacancies have only grown — and went unmentioned in this year’s agenda.
January 19, 2022: Dr. Deborah Jenkins, Norwood News
Lawmakers, people with loved ones in prison, and two DAs yesterday called for passage of the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bill January 5, 2022: Cheryl Wills, Spectrum …
November 17, 2021: Film by Jon Miller and Zach Russo; text by Sumit Poudyal, The New Yorker
September 8, 2021: Marvin Mayfield, New York Daily News
May 12, 2021: Nazgol Ghandnoosh, PhD, The Sentencing Project
June 10, 2021: Karen Dewitt, WAMC
June 6, 2021: Marina Villeneuve, Associated Press
